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BY GILLOWS
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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV GILTWOOD TRIPOD POLE SCREENS
By Gillows
Each with cartouche-shaped gros point needlework panel of a spray of flowers on a brown ground, in a serpentine, rockwork and acanthus frame with a basket of flowers and fruit to the centre of the cresting, the apron centred by a shell, on a ring-turned acanthus-clasped support and serpentine legs carved with rockwork and acanthus, with foliage-scrolled feet and part-sunk anti-friction brass castors, minor losses to the original gilding
58 in. (247.5 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep (2)
By Gillows
Each with cartouche-shaped gros point needlework panel of a spray of flowers on a brown ground, in a serpentine, rockwork and acanthus frame with a basket of flowers and fruit to the centre of the cresting, the apron centred by a shell, on a ring-turned acanthus-clasped support and serpentine legs carved with rockwork and acanthus, with foliage-scrolled feet and part-sunk anti-friction brass castors, minor losses to the original gilding
58 in. (247.5 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Commissioned by William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (d. 1833) for the Whistlejacket Room at Wentworth Woodhouse and by descent.